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Newguest Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

And boy will people ...

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And boy will people make excuse after excuse (not to start exercising)

--- Does it mean something like "Believe me people will make excuse after excuse ..."?
  

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Yes, something like that. The exclamation "boy" expresses the speaker's certainty or strength of feeling.

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  • Yes, something like that.
  • The exclamation "boy" expresses the speaker's certainty or strength of feeling.
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Yes, something like that. The exclamation "boy" expresses the speaker's certainty or strength of feeling.
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NewguestAnd boy will people make excuse after excuse (not to start exercising)
For this sentence/exclamation, you opted not to end with punctuation.
While not criticizing that, the sentence has an interesting construction and deserves punctuation.
The expression boy! is an exclamation. Will people make... is normally a question, but not here.
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